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• MV Barima captain, two crew members charged with murder

  Kaieteur News – The captain of the ill-fated MV Barima and two other senior crew members were on Tuesday jointly charged with murder over the ferry disaster that claimed more than 100 lives off the Essequibo coast. The trio was hauled before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, where they were remanded to prison pending the start […]

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• Protest erupts in Parliament as opposition demands Edghill, Indar resign over MV Barima tragedy

  By Renay Sambach (Kaieteur News) – As the National Assembly convened on Monday to approve nearly $55 billion to advance the government’s development projects and programmes, the joint opposition staged a protest, insisting that it should not be business as usual following Guyana’s deadliest maritime disaster. The MV Barima capsised just over a week ago while […]

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• Govt. floats leaving MV Barima on seabed as memorial site

  …French divers struggle to recover bodies trapped inside …families demand full salvage By Khadidja Ba (Kaieteur News) – The Government appears to be preparing the nation for the possibility that the sunken MV Barima will never be recovered. Prime Minister (Ret’d) Brigadier Mark Phillips yesterday signaled that bringing in additional foreign divers “will not change the […]

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